The New York Times has despatched Perplexity a “stop and desist” discover demanding the corporate cease utilizing the newspaper’s content material for generative AI functions, the startup mentioned on Tuesday, marking the most recent conflict between the information writer and an AI agency.

The information writer mentioned within the letter, a replica of which it shared with Reuters, that the way in which Perplexity was utilizing its content material, together with to create summaries and different sorts of output, violates copyright legislation. NYT declined to offer extra touch upon the matter.

Because the introduction of ChatGPT, publishers have been elevating the alarm on chatbots that may comb the web to seek out data and create paragraph summaries for the consumer.

Within the letter to Perplexity dated Oct. 2, NYT demanded the AI agency “instantly stop and desist all present and future unauthorized entry and use of The Occasions’s content material.”

It additionally requested Perplexity to offer data on how it’s accessing the writer’s web site regardless of its prevention efforts.

Perplexity had beforehand assured publishers it will cease utilizing “crawling” expertise, in accordance with the letter. Regardless of this, NYT mentioned its content material nonetheless seems in Perplexity.

“We aren’t scraping information for constructing basis fashions, however somewhat indexing net pages and surfacing factual content material as citations to tell responses when a consumer asks a query,” Perplexity instructed Reuters.

The startup additionally mentioned it plans to reply by an Oct. 30 deadline set by NYT to offer the requested data.

NYT can be tussling with OpenAI, which it had sued late final 12 months, accusing the agency of utilizing thousands and thousands of its newspaper articles with out permission to coach its AI chatbot.

Earlier this 12 months, Reuters reported a number of AI firms have been bypassing an internet commonplace utilized by publishers to dam the scraping of their information utilized in generative AI techniques.

Perplexity confronted accusations from media organizations equivalent to Forbes and Wired for plagiarizing their content material, however has since launched a revenue-sharing program to handle some considerations put ahead by publishers.

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